Development Roadmap

This page represents current thinking about where wxWidgets is going in the near, medium and long-term. It also serves as a schedule for new releases so that both developers and users can know what to expect when, at least approximately.

Note: In the following, the term 'stable' refers to a tested release from the stabilised branch. 'Unstable' or 'development' does not mean that the release will fall over a lot (although it might), but refers to the fact that backwards incompatible API changes can only happen in the unstable branch and so you should be ready to update your code if you are using development version.

We have adopted the Linux kernel style of numbering system where odd minor version numbers are development versions, and even numbers are stable versions. For example, 2.5.x are development releases, and the next 'stable' or final release of it would normally be 2.6 (or 3.0.0 if incrementing a major version).

Note that since much of the wxWidgets effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines: but we will endeavour to follow them as closely as possible.

Please see the Todo List for the list of other items which may appear in the future wxWidgets releases.

Schedule